Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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